LadyCrimson

You can probably find a list of such book locations somewhere on the web by now...save time that way. Really, there's so many useless books that if there are .00000001% that do something, and they're not a part of a quest or in special chests etc, not worth the time. My memory is fuzzy but I seem to recall there a few like that in MW too, but they were parts of quests..like in the process of doing the quest you'd run across them. Dunno tho.

That dog pic Silver posted is hilarious. Meercat, in couch potato pose.

More Ram might help a ilttle. And far as I know, no, you can't disble that smoke. I still lag a little (FPS goes way down anyway) when standing right over 'smoke', with 3ghz 2GB Ram...that's at 1600x1200 tho.

Hubby's a 'network consultant' - meaning he does a little of everything in that field, or whatever needs doing at the time. He works about 20-30 hours a week.

So many professional animal pictures all kinda look the same...like they belong on a gift shop postcard/calender with a Hallmark quote. Too stock-footage, no personality to them, imo. Not that they're not cute. Just bland. :D

I'm the same way as Bokishi and Setzer, only it doesn't bother me in the sense that I want to do everything so go crazy deciding what to do, I just think it's a little too open-ended...which on the one hand is nice, but on the other, makes me not care one whit about the plot, since I'm free to ignore it at will. Oblivion is a great game because it doesn't lock you into some kind of linear progression, but at the same time, it makes the plot seem almost pointless. Oblivion is like a big RPG sandbox-mode environment...again, cool and fun, but if you prefer game-induced structure, it's not really there. It's pretty much like MW to me...very pretty for the day and fun to muck around in and play with skills, but it's nothing you haven't seen or done before, and yeah, you really have to learn to focus on one quest at a time and not get sidetracked by others until you finish the first. You won't miss anything if you don't read all the books, btw. There's probably a few book quests here and there, but most of the books are just world story/atmosphere. And a lot of them are recycled from Morrowind (maybe even further, dunno, heh). P.S. I'd like to repeat that I don't dislike Oblivion...I just don't think it's all that special beyond the eye-candy.

Tripods ftw. And...awwww!!! why are small furry things so darn cute.

Meh...every time I'm lazy and link to something instead of upload it to my own servers...fixed. And why do people always hold poor kittens by one hand when taking a picture? Damn, urge for new kitten growing....

ok...back to Crusader now..

I also like meercats.

I photoshopped this one the other day. I googled this one just now.

Stronghold:Crusader is eating my brain alive. Five to 8 AI opponents means hours winning one map....I just love it.

I don't work, which is why I can come here and annoy everyone at all hours of the day and night. :cool: Hasn't changed since last year, or the year before, or the year before...

teehee this one is now my wallpaper.

Someone I know elsewhere posted this link and I thought it was hilarious. As he said, don't read the posts, just look at the pictures. Some are really funny... http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=264472

My 10th grade history teacher showed that movie in class over the course of a few days. Sure it's bloated and mostly a big 'multiple star vehicle' film that was so popular for a while, but I still liked it enough to buy it as an adult many years later. Haha! I loved that movie when I was a kid...I had such a crush on Michael York for a while. Classic.

I'll add my voice to the "IWD(1) is a fun game" crowd. Not perfect, and not like BG, but still very fun. It's focus is more on the action tho, even if there is a story. I typically can only play strategy and/or city-sim games over and over again for a decade or more.

No, not the HUI...the 'shoot this man out the window for 3 seconds', lose HUI control, dialog cutscene, another controlable character action sequence for a few seconds, dialog cutscene, repeat and repeat. I did make it out into the courtyard, but by then I was so sick of those dialog cutscenes interrupting the action I quit. heh

Maybe my NOLF install was broken...I couldn't skip anything. I tried. The interface really annoyed/frustrated me.

If you ever try No One Lives Forever, I'm told you have to get past the first intro stuff before it becomes enjoyable. Me, I couldn't wait that long and stopped playing, so I can't confirm that. I hated those beginning levels, the forced camera angles and story scenes that....well...you'd have to play it.

As a cat-owner expert, I can safely say that just like with humans, it depends a lot on what you feed the furry loved ones. A lot of commerical cat foods create very pungent wastes and often, the kitty-trots. Plus, if dogs used 'boxes' that you only cleaned once a day or so, those boxes would smell pretty rank too, I'm sure.

System Shock2 is the most fright-shock game I ever played. :ph34r:

Yeah, HL1, mid-late 1998. http://www.avault.com/REVIEWS/review_temp.asp?game=half The 'story/atmosphere' gushing is on page 2 of that review. And this one isn't so into the 'story' angle but does title their article with the word revolutionary. hehe http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife/review.html Most of the reviews I'd read at the time were in magazines, not the net.

I remember that too...you're not crazy. In fact, that's why I bought the first Half-Life...(I don't typically buy shooters)...cause all the reviews in magazines made it sound like a FPS with a brain and lots of story-atmosphere, or something.